Highest-rated stocks similar to WDC by NexusTrade rating

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Peer membership was fetched 2026-10-12.

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What the leading companies do

The first 5 companies below lead the ratings in this snapshot; equal ratings are ordered by ticker. Their company profiles describe different businesses even when they share the Western Digital Corp. (WDC) selection.

These are company descriptions, not estimates of revenue from this theme. Industry membership does not identify a pure-play business or establish how much sales depend on it. Open the company profile and examine segment disclosures before treating an overlapping classification as equivalent exposure.

1. Micron Technology, Inc. (MU): 3.5 / 5

   Micron Technology, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells memory and storage products in the United States, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, China, India, and internationally. It operates through the Cloud Memory Business Unit (CMBU); Core Data Center Business Unit (CDCBU); Mobile and Client Business Unit (MCBU); and Automotive and Embedded Business Unit (AEBU) segments. The company provides memory products, including dynamic random access memory components and modules, CXL-based memory, LPDDR components and modules, graphics memory, high-bandwidth memory, and data center memory products; multichip packages (MCP) comprising embedded multimedia cards-based, universal flash storage-based, and NAND-based MCPs; and technology leadership products that include 1y DRAM and G9 NAND technologies. It also offers storage products, such as data center solid state drive (SSD), client SSD storage, and auto and industrial SSD storage; managed NAND; NAND flash; NOR flash; and memory cards. In addition, the company provides design tools, including FBGA and part decoder; DRAM power calculators; NAND power calculators; simulation models; chipset compatibility guides; serial presence-detection tools; cross-reference tools; UFSparm; SSD firmware; software and drivers; storage executive software; and obsolete part catalogs. It markets its semiconductor memory and storage products under the Micron and Crucial brands. The company serves the data center, PC, graphics, networking, automotive, industrial, and consumer embedded markets, as well as for smartphone and other mobile-device markets. It sells its products through its direct sales force, independent sales representatives, distributors, and retailers; web-based customer direct sales channel; and channel and distribution partners. Micron Technology, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

2. NetApp, Inc (NTAP): 3.5 / 5

   NetApp, Inc. provides a range of enterprise software, systems, and services that customers use to transform their data infrastructures in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud. The company offers data management software, such as NetApp ONTAP, ONTAP One, NetApp Snapshot, NetApp SnapCenter Backup Management, NetApp SnapMirror Data Replication, and NetApp SnapLock Data Compliance; and storage infrastructure solutions, including NetApp All-Flash FAS (AFF A-Series), NetApp All-Flash FAS with capacity flash (AFF C-Series), NetApp All-Flash SAN Array (ASA A-Series & C-Series), NetApp Fabric Attached Storage (FAS), NetApp E/EF series, and NetApp StorageGRID. It also provides cloud storage services comprising NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, as well as NetApp BlueXP, BlueXP Copy and Sync, BlueXP Backup and Recovery, BlueXP Classification, and BlueXP Ransomware Protection. In addition, the company offers operational services, such as NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights and Instaclustr; and professional and support services offerings include storage-as-a-service (STaaS), strategic consulting, professional, managed, and support services, as well as assessment, design, implementation, migration, and proactive support services to help customers optimize the performance and efficiency of their on-premises and hybrid multicloud storage environments. It serves various industries comprising energy, financial services, government, technology, internet, life sciences, healthcare services, manufacturing, media, entertainment, animation, video postproduction, and telecommunications through a direct sales force and an ecosystem of partners, including the leading cloud providers. NetApp, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

3. Everspin Technologies, Inc (MRAM): 3 / 5

   Everspin Technologies, Inc. manufactures and sells magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) technologies in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, China, Canada, and internationally. It offers Toggle MRAM, spin-transfer torque MRAM, and tunnel magneto resistance sensor products, as well as foundry services for MRAM products. The company provides its products for applications, including industrial, medical, automotive/transportation, aerospace, and data center markets. It serves original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and original design manufacturers through a direct sales channel, and a network of representatives and distributors. Everspin Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

4. Penguin Solutions, Inc. Ordinary Shares (PENG): 3 / 5

   Penguin Solutions, Inc. designs, builds, deploys and manages enterprise solutions worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Advanced Computing, Integrated Memory, and Optimized LED. It offers hardware, software, and services focusing on technical computing for core and cloud environments through high-performance computing and AI solutions under the Penguin Solutions, Penguin Computing, Stratus, and Penguin Edge brands. The company also provides Penguin Solutions OriginAI, an AI infrastructure solution for customers deploying GPUs at scale; continuous availability of customers critical data and applications in data centers and edge locations under the Stratus brand products; and dynamic random-access memory, modules, solid-state/flash storage, and other integrated memory solutions to networking and telecom, data analytics, AI, and ML under the SMART Modular Technologies brand. In addition, it provides Zefr, a memory module; Altus and AMD EPYC based servers for expansive memory for AI workloads; flash memory products comprising solid-state drives, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, and PCIe NVMe products in 2.5 enclosures, M.2, EDSFF, and other module form factors; and multimediacard and embedded and removable USB products, and SD and microSD Card configurations, as well as firmware development. Further, the company offers procurement, logistics, inventory management, temporary warehousing, programming, kitting, and packaging supply chain services; and LEDs under the Cree LED brand; Cree LED XLamp and J Series packaged LED components. It serves OEMs, enterprise, government, and other end customers through direct and third-party channels. The company was formerly known as SMART Global Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Penguin Solutions, Inc. in October 2024. Penguin Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

5. Seagate Technology Holdings PLC Ordinary Shares (Ireland) (STX): 3 / 5

   Seagate Technology Holdings plc engages in the provision of data storage technology and infrastructure solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. It also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, Expansion, and Basics product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives for personal computers and workstation applications; notebook drives traditional notebooks, convertible systems, and external storage applications, DVR HDDs for video streaming applications, and gaming SSDs for gaming rigs. In addition, the company provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform, that includes modular hardware and software to support enterprises' on-premise and cloud storage infrastructure needs. It sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in Singapore.

Valuation and company size within this selection

These summaries use the 11 displayed companies. Each company retains its own market observation date in the ratings table above. Medians are unweighted; they are not a sector index valuation.

Positive P/E and price-to-book values are summarized separately. Missing, zero and negative values are excluded from those medians, with the included count shown. A lower multiple alone does not establish better value: profitability, growth, debt and business mix can differ.

Other business classifications in the list

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Dates and coverage

Report dates range from 2025-12-31 to 2025-12-31. Market observations range from 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-06. These dates may differ across companies. Daily closes are not synchronized live quotes.

The selection includes 0 companies without a report, 0 with invalid latest rating metadata, 0 with older reports, 0 with missing required fundamentals and 0 with out-of-date market observations. Missing companies receive no substitute score.

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